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The Kindness and Severity of God – Part 1 I often find myself thinking about or quietly singing the comforting words of the modern hymn In Christ Alone. Still, sadly, those beautiful words sometimes bring back the unpleasant memory of a recent and very public controversy. In 2013, the Presbyterian Church (USA) voted to exclude the hymn from its new hymnal because the composers refused to allow a change to the lyrics. The issue was this:  the second verse contains the…